A collection of 25 posts
And that is an ancient cultural surprise worth celebrating. Far more than imaginary Gods, Ravens, and Spirits.
The poor and unemployed have demonstrated that their patience is limited and that they are a keg of dynamite waiting to go off.
But often it seems that means and end have become reversed, and that these crimes now serve as a prop in the larger ideological campaign against our supposedly white-supremacy-saturated culture—a campaign that Asians themselves are now being pressured to join.
This mindset is nigh-incomprehensible to people of The Narrative who are used to being guided by a single source of truth enforced by social consensus.
It is an attack on the free reporting of information if context no longer matters, and it is an attack on education if a respectful discussion about language itself risks dismissal.
In the case of the media, we’ve had a running social experiment underway since 2015 that helps us answer this question.
This clustering phenomenon explains why the COVID-19 policy debate among politicians, doctors, and pundits now has become somewhat surreal, with world-class experts telling us either that we are facing an “apocalypse,” or that the pandemic will fizzle and we’re all “going to be fine.”
Less local reporting means less transparency, less informed voters, and lower levels of civic engagement.
Corruption, escalating unemployment, social unrest, and failing public infrastructure plague the nation.
It seems wrong that the Executive Director of a humanist association should be able to use his organization’s governing mechanisms to shut down pushback against his publicly expressed ideological agenda.
For those of us engaged in showing young people how the media are supposed to work, there is no escaping the sturm und drang over fake news.
Notes from the recent Heterodox Academy conference.